Unfetchable distfiles reminder

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

On Mon, 08 May 2006 09:27:23 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:

> Bill Fenner wrote:
> > Dear porters,
> > 
> >   This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of
> > unfetchable distfiles at http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ .
> > In particular, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with distfile
> > problems, which currently has 203 bad ports, is
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html
> > 
> Rather than a list of ports with unfectchable distfiles and no 
> maintainer, this appears to be a list of every port.
> 
> Is the link incorrect?  Or am I doing something wrong?

All ports are there with the status for all MASTER_SITES (plus WWW).
The bad ones are in red.

> > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get
> > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative.
> > 
> >   In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html
> > 
> I tackled a few of these yesterday, but all of them had maintainers.  (I 
> did seven, but one turned out to have already been done.)  Some of them 
> were pretty simple.  Some I declined to do because they required 
> extensive patching.  Are maintainers notified when their ports don't work?

Yes :) How fast they react is an other matter :-/

> I'd rather tackle ones without a maintainer, if I can get a valid list. 

/me (and jmelo) are your biggest fans for this kind of PRs, please CC
one of us on your PRs.

>   If the port doesn't have a maintainer and the software is no longer 
> available (I used both Google and searching around at the master site to 
> try and locate where the software had moved to), what should we do? 
> Mark the port as DEPRECATED and let the committers decide on an 
> EXPIRATION DATE?

I'd say mark it DEPRECIATED if we have all DISTFILES on our ftp, if not
BROKEN. You can suggest an EXPIRATION DATE yourself.


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